## Plan for the Fourth "Letter from Afar"

How to Achieve Peace?

1) On everyone's lips or in everyone's hearts.

2) Naiveté: Gorky.

3) Type of unconsciousness.

4) Imperialist war.

5) What is imperialism?

6) What forces are at war?

12) Citation from No. 47.

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Report pp. 16–17

92–93: on the Soviet of Workers' Deputies and the Provisional Government.

Written March 12 (25), 1917

Published for the first time from the manuscript

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## Plans for the Article "Revolution in Russia and the Tasks of the Workers of All Countries"

**1**

1. The proletariat and 2 governments.

2. What is the government of Guchkov + Milyukov doing?

3. What is the government of workers and peasants doing?

**2**

1. How did the revolution in Russia occur and why did it create two governments?

2. What is the government of Lvov, Guchkov, Milyukov and Co. doing? Is this a new government of landowners and capitalists?

3. What is the government of workers and peasants doing?

4. What should the government of workers and peasants do? How to achieve peace?

5. How to ensure that the government of workers and peasants becomes the sole government of Russia?

5 bis. What kind of state, what kind of state order is needed by workers and peasants?

6. Why is the revolution in Russia the beginning of revolutions throughout the world?

7. Three currents among the socialists of Russia.

8. id.[79] – – of the entire world.

9. Conclusions and conclusion.

Written in March, no later than March 12 (25), 1917

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Published from the manuscript

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## Plan for the Lecture "The Russian Revolution, Its Significance and Its Tasks"{162}

1. Die erste Etappe der ersten Revolution.

2. Nicht die letzte Revolution, nicht die letzte Etappe.

3. In drei Tagen Sturz der monarchischen Regierung, die Jahrhunderte gedauert und schwere Kämpfe 1905–1907 erlebt hat?

4. Wunder[80].

**Part I**

1. "The world became different in three days."

2. "A miracle."

3. How was it possible to overthrow in 8 days?

Four main conditions:

4. – – (I) – – The Revolution of 1905–1907.

(((Ploughed up the soil; revealed all classes and parties; exposed and isolated Nicholas II and Co. (Rasputin).

5. – – (II) – – Collaboration of three forces in this revolution:

– – (α) Anglo-French financial capital

6. – – (β) the entire bourgeoisie and the landlord-capitalist class of Russia (and the upper echelons of the army)

7. – – – (γ) the revolutionary proletariat and the revolutionary part of the army, the soldiers.

8. Three forces now:

– (αα) tsarist monarchy; remnants of dynasties (counter-revolution in the south)

9. – (ββ) the new government and the bourgeoisie

10. – (γγ) the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

11. Peace, bread, freedom =

= Three fundamental demands.

12. || The new government cannot

13. || give them...

14: Three lines in the Soviet of Workers' Deputies:

15: Resolution on Kerensky{163} etc.

16: The vacillations of Chkheidze.

17: The line of the Central Committee of the RSDLP. Manifesto of the Central Committee.

**Part II**

18. What is to be done? Where and how to go?

Toward the Commune? Prove this.

19. Analysis of the situation. Rapid change of situations.

(the day before yesterday – the greatest illegality. Call for revolutionary struggle. Struggle against social-chauvinism.

(yesterday – the maximum of revolutionary heroism in combat.

(today – transition, organization...

(tomorrow – combat once again.

20. Organization – the slogan of the day.

What kind? Party? Trade unions? etc.

21. Soviet of Workers' Deputies. Quid est[81]. Thesis No. 4.{164}

22. Our "state."

23. The Paris Commune... Its essence.

24. The teaching of Marx and Engels on the transitional type of state{165}:

25. Proletarian militia. What kind...

26. – is needed by them

27. – – and by us.

28. Revolutionary-democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry...

29. Peace? How (Gorky?).

30. – Our conditions for peace

(thesis No. 11 in No. 47){166}.

31. A step (transition) toward socialism.

32. Long live the Russian revolution, long live the beginning world proletarian revolution!

Written in March, no later than March 14 (27), 1917

First published in 1955 in the journal "Historical Archive" No. 2

Published from the manuscript

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## Announcement of V. I. Lenin's Lecture "On the Tasks of the RSDLP in the Russian Revolution," Delivered March 14 (27), 1917 in Zurich (Reduced)

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## Theses for the Lecture "The Russian Revolution, Its Significance and Its Tasks"

The lecture is planned in 2 parts:

The first – on the fundamental historical forces and conditions of the revolution; the second – on its tasks.

The first part should show, in virtue of what circumstances such a "miracle" as the overthrow of tsarist monarchy in 8 days was possible.

The second – to outline why the proletariat of Russia must march toward the Commune, what its first steps along this path should be, and under what conditions victory is assured to it.

Written in March, no later than March 14(27), 1917

Published in March 1917 in an announcement of the lecture, issued on the duplicator by the Zurich section of the foreign organizations of the RSDLP(b)

Published from the text of the announcement